Share Photos with a Slideshow

March 31, 2010

Noël Jackson

Media is a big part of my life. Showing friends a slideshow of a weekend excursion is a common occurrence. When blogging these photos, displaying them in a long gallery doesn’t always make sense.There wasn’t any other option to show off the images uploaded to your WordPress.com blog until now.

Today, we’re rolling out 100% JavaScript powered slideshows. But, why did I bother to mention that they’re JavaScript powered? Most importantly, because we’re consuming the web in different ways. Our JavaScript powered slideshows will work in any browser that supports CSS and JavaScript – even the iPad and iPhone!

The slideshows are simple and straightforward. Upload your photos as a gallery, then click the “Insert slideshow” button, or use the [slideshow] shortcode. The slideshow automatically adjusts its dimensions to fit your blog’s theme.

Without further ado, here are some pictures I took while visiting some zoos over the years.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

This feature is currently only available on WordPress.com. A WordPress.org/self-hosted plugin will be available soon.

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I’m blogging through my hikes in the White Mountains, and people love the pictures. This is a great feature to add – better than embedding jpgs and scrolling. Can’t wait to try the slideshow. Guess that means I better pick another peak to climb. 🙂

oh that will be great if we can add this into old posts too. i think the best part is, we can now show two or more different slideshows for different subjects, am i right? for example, you went to zoo and you can show tigers and lions grouped in different slideshows.

This is one feature that I was hoping would be developed! Now, I don’t have to bother posting too many image thumbnails on a post! Is this available for a WordPress.com blog’s sidebar as well? As a widget, maybe?

This is great, and I love the dark background for photos–makes the colors pop, especially in white themes. One thing I’m still waiting on that will make this slideshow feature even better is a way to create multiple galleries in one post, so that I can show several pictures of one building in one slideshow and several pictures of another building in another slideshow, while adding explanatory text about each in between. Thanks for all the new stuff this last month!

This is good news for me as I live in the UAE where there is a firewall to block some sites and one major one is Flickr so I can’t link to a nice gallery very easily (Google Picassa is a bit clunky). This gets round this – can’t wait to try it out.